around here otherwise. I felt like a waste of space until then.

Sarah: Yeah, you seemed to be getting you shit together recently.

Tommy: Yeah. The old guy is actually pretty cool too. My own dad isn’t much use so it’s good to have somebody older to talk to about stuff. He has hundreds of books in his house and it seems like he knows everything. Science, nutrition, psychology, engineering. Not just opinions either, he really knows stuff!

I bet you he’s trying to figure out a way to get out of here right now. Pauline had a nickname for him. “Brian’s brain” she’d call him.

Sarah laughs at the name as quietly as she can. They notice however but just